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Thursday, May 20th, 2010
I’ll be doing two assemblies with Trenton Central High School next week. Its Stand For Peace week. In preparation for my presentation, I wanted to ask my readers, tweeps, my fb family, my film audience for a message for the youth in Trenton. What would you like me to say to Trenton youth to inspire [...]
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Saturday, March 6th, 2010
According to the Washington Post, the District of Columbia will be giving out free female condoms over the next three weeks as a part of a campaign that will distribute 500,000 condoms through high schools, beauty salons, and convenience stores.The campaign is funded by MAC cosmetics. (Get ya lip gloss on!)
This initiative is aimed at [...]
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Friday, March 5th, 2010
Today I visited a suburban school in Northern, Virginia to talk about my career as an author / filmmaker. I showed the students the six books that I’ve written and I even showed them the movie poster to my first film, Can She Be Saved? As an extra bonus (in case they didn’t like my [...]
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Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010
As I perused the internet tonight, I came across a magazine entitled, ARISE. According to their publicist, it’s the “leading global African-themed style and cultural magazine.” I don’t know how long its been around, but I’ve never even heard of it.
This week ARISE selected top African designers Black Coffee, Loin Cloth and Ashes along with [...]
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Sunday, January 24th, 2010
People magazine’s website www.people.com is reporting that the Hope for Haiti benefit telethon full of performances with the likes of Mary J. Blige, Sting, Beyonce, Christina Aguilera, etc. has raised $57 million dollars! That should buy a whole lot of hope, help, and HURRY–as in get to Haiti and help out! I’m pleased that so [...]
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Friday, January 22nd, 2010
You know I like Ron Artest–the controversial, spirited NBA player who is currently reppin’ the Lakers. Well, for you hip hop music lovers you probably remember him spitting on a Neptunes track a few years ago. In his 16 bars, he killed it. Well, Ron hasn’t lost a step. Here he is droppin some knowledge [...]
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Wednesday, January 20th, 2010
After the aftershocks that Haiti suffered, I thought it was important to post this video from our first lady, Michelle Obama.
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Tuesday, January 19th, 2010
Amid accusations that his charity Yele is not on the up and up, recording superstar Wyclef Jean holds a press conference and defends it. Watch the video. It shouldn’t require that much concentration to tell the truth.
In his press conference, Wyclef said that his father told him that he’d be questioned for doing good. I [...]
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